Sonata for Bassoon and Piano in G Major

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“Woodwind Sonatas”

167, and the Sonata for Bassoon and Piano in G Major, Op. 168. Saint-Saëns used these works to showcase instruments until then rarely featured. The oboe and bassoon, for example, had been heard often in the Baroque era but had received little attention thereafter. The clarinet too had…